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More than anything, when the government shuts down for two or three weeks or four weeks, these very highly skilled engineers and research scientists and mathematicians and physicians, you furlough 97% of nasa employees. over time, if this happens now and it happens again with the next debt ceiling or the next continuing resolution, we start losing some of the best talent we have. we know what cdc and nih and case western and nasa, we know what it produces in terms of wealth and prosperity and human knowledge. we just can t afford as a nation to operate this way. senator, why can t the government just be open now? it s a short term deal anyway, so it would be in tandem with a short term debt ceiling raise, and obviously, with republicans in the house having carried out the threat and the government shut down, president obama and the senate democrats know that they re serious. why not just open the government, lift the debt ceiling, it s short term anyway, then the negotiations can rea ....